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Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:53 am

Morning y'all

A lot of rain and racket that came with that rain last night. Humid. Smack in the face when you walk outside this morning.

Busy busy week. Both new trucks are going in for service, one today and one tomorrow, which somehow seems to consume a whole day with the driving and waiting time that is also involved.

The deer flies. OMG the deer flies. I'll take mosquitoes over deer flies any day. They are out of control this year. It's very hard to get crossbow target practice in when they are zooming around your head and within 3 minutes you're ready to have the biggest hissy fit. When I took garbage to the road last week a few got tangled in my hair and huge biopsy samples got Tsken. Man I was not a happy camper. I got the strips for the hat. Wore it for 3 hours. They zoomed my head etc., while I was out and not one stuck to the hat. Just swarmed me and drove me bananas. WTH!

Another pullet, or so I thought, has crossed the bridge and I now deem a cockerel. So I'm down to 5 Easter egger pullets. Insanity. I have 6 more cockerels still to get to the auction and then I'm down to 3 and we'll see who stays and who goes as time goes on. My ratio is about 90% cockerels and 10% pullets. Very pretty cockerels I will say but I definitely didn't win on the pullet side of things. Legbar chicks are flying around, love the little roost I gave them (a twig) and they are very active. Surprisingly I haven't lost one. Yet. I'm not a chick / baby person. Except ducklings. They are much hardier.

I am looking forward to my one on one this Thursday with the marksman. Gotta pick up some fake shells while in town today.

Hope everyone got plenty of rain! Hot humid week ahead. Stay cool

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:06 am

you got all the rain, ugh. Watched it go south of us. WHY?????????????????? UGH.

Its humid like you said tho, Sandy. Brother. Got a bee sting to go to. Another ugh. Sit there for half an hour. AHHHH. Hate that. Like, if I was to drop over dead from a prick, I would have by now.

Melissa wants to go for baby things. Her baby is out of newborn stuff, and into size one diapers. Too big. All those newborn things she bought (10 sleepers/onesies) do not fit him any longer. I guess a nearly 10 pound baby is not a newborn sized one.

She wanted to know if she should pump a bottle incase he got hungry while out. I said, No, you can feed him. WHAT? IN THE JEEP??? lol. I said, no, on the sidewalk. Shes scared he will cry. WTF? This is a farm kid here. I told her to relax, and feed the baby wherever/when. Ok.. not the sidewalk. But.. if she doesn't relax while doing it, the baby will starve anyhow.

Oh well. She will relax some day. I'd better go to this thing. The day I am unallergic to bees will be a HAPPY one indeed. Another 2 years... sigh.

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:23 am

We didnt have any power for 4 hours as well last night. The thunder was so loud that I thought for sure those strikes were hitting the ground at the side of the house.

I was home when our other house in Ancaster got hit by lightening. Blew 3 windows out, fried our electrical system, burnt wood along the wiring path in the basement, blew the washer that was on at the time, blew computers, tv's and my eardrums. I called 9-1-1 yelling because I couldn't hear anything. I was working in my office and the window blew and the force made me fly across the room in my chair. Drake crapped and pissed himself, yet storms don't bother him at all since. House smelt like it was on fire. Blew shingles off the house. Quite the day. A second lightening hit beside the house, split a 100+ year old evergreen right down the middle and it landed on the side of the house. THAT is why I hate thunder (which is really lightening I know). Lol.

Post by **WLLady** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:13 am

yikes sandy! scary! all i can say is-and i say this from experience-if you can hear the thunder, you are okay....lol.

(yes, a few years back i didn't hear the thunder....saw the blue, heard the snap, and lost 15 minutes of my life.....lightning sends me into a complete panic now....even a random camera flash is enough to make me startle!)

so muggy and humid today! the horse we are farm sitting right now has asthma...this weather is so rough on her...prednolisone and ventolin...poor thing. going to be a sweaty one working on the destruction. at least there's a breeze, should make it bearable. should get myself moving. happily on vacation again this week so not really time pressured on anything LOL. moved another 10 pullets yesterday. now i have a coop full of at least 25 cockerels and maybe 7 pullets....i will move the girls into the barn shortly before the boys discover "oats".....lol. not fair to the girls that's for sure.

alright. more destruction today. will be hot and sweaty work, but fun anyways-destruction is always fun LOL
hope everyone has a great day!

Post by **Killerbunny** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:24 am

A friend I used to work with was killed by lightning. She was judging an AQHA show maybe 15 yrs ago when lightning hit her radio pack. I get a little antsy around it now!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:59 am

Crazy humid here,
Survived large (for me) group of people BBQ, surprise guests kept popping up, may be just too old for that, played badminton with some youngsters, definitely too old for that.

Stil can't get on PTO without logging on every time, reloaded emptied cache and no change, turns out I am too lazy to do that every time I get on,
will have to visit my friendly library to see if high speed internet can help.
Getting ready to combine and move the Wyandotte chicks, the color is changing every day, will heve to set one day a week to take pics to follow the development. 3 years of work, lets see if it was worth it :)
Have a cool one!

Post by **Killerbunny** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:02 am

I'm having the same thing OC and I'm on high speed.

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:09 am

KB, I want to 'heart' for sharing but not for what happened

Kathy, you're right. There is that snap and you know that isn't thunder! Last night the sky was orange and I said to myself oh man this is going to get dangerous.

With the lightening event and the being broken into while I was at home, I'm surprised I'm not a complete whack job. Wait.....

I still have to log on as well each time. We're spoiled :) haha.

WaupoosCowgirl · Post by **WaupoosCowgirl** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:20 am

Went out to collect eggs...saw some splashing in the duck tub....little weasel jumped out...weasel now whacked and in the woodstove!

Post by **WLLady** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 11:29 am

Way to go waupooscowgirl!! Hope it didnt get any ducks....
Yeah i need to log in every time too. Head honcho says it should work through sometime-its an anti spam thing or something....we had a ssl thing installed on the weekend and it seemed to kick everyone out after an hour...we reset the time to 12 hours see if that makes it any better....i asked him again about it. He is filling his coffee cup...lol
Just turned on the ac. So nice to have that installed. So muggy. Horse with asthma is drugged up and will hopefully survive the day. The poor thing. And the chickens over there are on strike...no eggs. Lol.
Oh well. Its too hit for that anyways. Guess i should go and move the trailer coop before the major destruction. Hoping to have at least half thins thing on the ground by night...